Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff
The whole world is run on bluff.
A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
As president of the United States, I don't bluff.
I got used to [ Lars Von Trier] doing the narration for 'Dogville' and 'Manderley. ' And I said to him I do these narrations for you but you never put me in a film! So he called my bluff and put me in 'Melancholia' and I was thrilled about that.
It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.
You can bluff the good players, but not the bad players. Against the bad players, you have to have a hand.
Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.
If you never bluff, you'll rarely get called. If you bluff all the time, you'll always get called.
You can't bluff someone that's not paying attention.
Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.
When you bluff, someone may call you on it.
